The Special Operations Forensic Tool Kit

The raid of Osama bin Laden's compound yielded a treasure trove of intelligence material—computers, thumb drives and other media. Special operations forces routinely confiscate such material from raids as part of what's known as "sensitive site exploitation." In fact, teams are now equipped with state-of-the-art kits designed to collect any scrap of material and information from such raids, and PM discovered what's in the tool kits special operations forces carry with them.

XRY/XACT

XRY/XACT

Forensic tool used for obtaining information of a cellphone, including deleted information. However, neither this nor other devices are foolproof; they don't work on all cellphones, particularly cheap Chinese-made clones.